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South Carolina workplace safety
How 7,610 OSHA-reporting employers across South Carolina compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 7,610
- Employers
- 4.6
- Avg TCR
- 128,117
- Injuries
- 126
- Fatalities
The state picture
South Carolina's reporting employers average 4.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7,610
- employers reporting
- 128,117
- recordable injuries
- 126
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
19% of South Carolina's reporting establishments earn an F and 18% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where South Carolina ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRSouth Carolina's average TCR of 4.6 is lower than 79% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, South Carolina is #12 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #44 of 54, a 32-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How South Carolina Workplaces Compare
South Carolina hosts 7,610 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this South Carolina cohort, workers have logged 128,117 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 126 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in South Carolina, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in South Carolina, by injury rate
Page 100 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0505 Manheim Darlington 1111 Harry Byrd Hwy | Darlington | Automobile and Other Motor V | C | 2.0 |
| Orangeburg Country Club | Orangeburg | Country clubs | B | 2.0 |
| Big Lots Store #5123 Columbia, SC | Columbia | Retail Other | B | 2.0 |
| Big Lots Store #5182 Simpsonville, SC | Simpsonville | Retail Other | B | 2.0 |
| Big Lots Store #5139 N. Charleston, SC | North Charleston | Retail Other | B | 2.0 |
| M1315 Springs Memor | Lancaster | - | B | 2.0 |
| Angleboard | Darlington | Packing and preparing goods | A | 2.0 |
| Dc 2 | Summerville | Machine shops | B | 2.0 |
| 2253 | Goose Creek | - | B | 2.0 |
| Patriot Concrete Cutting | Piedmont | Concrete sawing and drilling | B | 2.0 |
| Greenwood Hyd Sc | Greenwood | - | B | 2.0 |
| Midlands | West Columbia | Exterminating services | A | 2.0 |
| Sales - Myrtle Beach | North Myrtle Beach | Hotels and Motels | B | 2.0 |
| 2700 | Columbia | Home Health Care Services | A | 2.0 |
| Crane Willistion SC | Willison | Coin-operated vending machin | B | 2.0 |
| Palmetto Automatic Sprinkler Co., Inc. | West Columbia | Sprinkler system, building, | B | 2.0 |
| Power Technique NA LLC | Rock Hill | Compressors, air and gas, ge | B | 2.0 |
| Coastal Grand | Myrtle Beach | 458110 Clothing and Clothing | B | 2.0 |
| Leroy Springs & Company, Inc. | Fort Mill | Nature preserves | B | 2.0 |
| Holset Palmetto Plant | Ladson | Diesel and semidiesel engine | B | 2.0 |
| URS Greer | Greer | Automobile carrier trucking, | A | 2.0 |
| Fountain Inn_1363902 | Fountain Inn | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 2.0 |
| SC - Google | Moncks Corner | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 2.0 |
| Landmark Builders of SC | Columbia | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.0 |
| The Harper Corporation - General Contractors | Greenville | Construction management, com | B | 2.0 |
| Marleylilly | Greer | Apparel findings and trimmin | B | 2.0 |
| S07495 - Orangeburg Hauling Sumter | Sumter | - | B | 2.0 |
| K101-M001 | Anderson | Commercial bakeries | B | 2.0 |
| LaFrance | Lafrance | Broadwoven Fabric Mills | B | 2.0 |
| Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Spartanburg Plant | Spartanburg | Aerosol cans, light gauge me | B | 2.0 |
| Cross County_1437126 | North Charleston | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 2.0 |
| Wm 5279 | Summerville | - | B | 2.0 |
| BKI | Simpsonville | Dryers, laundry (except hous | B | 2.0 |
| South East Distribution Center - SEDC | Fort Mill | Retail Store | B | 2.0 |
| Western Billing Center | Lexington | TRANSPORTATION | A | 2.0 |
| 0218 - Columbia | Cayce | Industrial Launderers | C | 1.9 |
| Bosch Rexroth FniP | Fountain Inn | Motors, fluid power, manufac | B | 1.9 |
| Trs Pageland | Pageland | 488490 Other Support Activit | A | 1.9 |
| Crane Payment Innovations, Inc | Williston | Vending machines manufacturi | B | 1.9 |
| Unit #0808 | Anderson | Retail | B | 1.9 |
| VLS Spartanburg | Spartanburg | Waste /Cleaning | B | 1.9 |
| PSC Shandon | Columbia | Centers, senior citizens' | B | 1.9 |
| Thompson Construction Group Inc Caterpillar Pin | Sumter | Manufacturing Building Const | B | 1.9 |
| Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Heavy | West Columbia | Construction machinery and e | C | 1.9 |
| Plant 78 | Aiken | Polyester fibers and filamen | B | 1.9 |
| Bridgestone AOR | Trenton | Industrial equipment and mac | C | 1.9 |
| Cummins Turbo Technologies | Ladson | 423830 Industrial Machinery | C | 1.9 |
| Piggly Wiggly 284 | Hardeeville | Grocery stores | B | 1.9 |
| SEFA Transportation (St. George) | St. George | Concrete building products m | C | 1.9 |
| 1808-00020104-05178 | Chesnee | Supermarket | B | 1.9 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What South Carolina's safety record means for you
South Carolina averages a TCR of 4.6 - about 1.7× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.